Because we were kind of tired of all the day-after punditizing on the Twitter machine — because we were certainly tired of pundits, and kind of tired in general, or at least traveling back from around this great nation — we asked some people to return to the day-of. People who aren't on Twitter all day, or TV, or inside the hive. Writers. Writers we like, like Téa Obreht and Andrew Solomon and Isabel Wilkerson. Writers we know, like Tom Chiarella and Chris Jones and Scott Raab and Mike Sager and Ron Suskind. People we respect, like Chinua Achebe. And some people you have seen these past few months, like Chris Hayes and Larry Lessig, but who still retain some sense of the civics of the thing. Or at least the lessons, and certainly the moment.